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~ the life design coach


When the leader breaks
A few years before my own life changed forever, I worked closely with a client who was rebuilding both his life and restructuring his business after the death of his wife. He wasn’t only leading an organization. He was learning how to become a single father while carrying a grief that touched every corner of his life. As his executive coach, I walked beside him through that season. I witnessed the impossible decisions. The exhaustion. The uncertainty. The quiet courage it too
Maja Arnadottir
Jun 293 min read


When the Strong One Breaks: Leadership After the Life You Didn’t Choose
There’s a particular kind of grief that doesn’t look like grief. It looks like competence. It looks like a person still answering emails. Still showing up to meetings. Still functioning. Still finding the right words for other people. It looks like “I’m okay.” And yet inside… something is splintering. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Quietly. In the nervous system. In the body. In the identity. This is for the high performers. The ones who can carry anything… until they can’t. T
Maja Arnadottir
May 145 min read


Leading with Heart in a High-Stakes World
Making Space for Humanity, Self-Awareness, and Soul in Leadership Leadership in today’s world is not for the faint of heart. It is for the strong-hearted. Not the invulnerable — but the self-aware. The ones willing to feel, reflect, and lead with both precision and presence. Because the higher the stakes, the more complex the terrain. The decisions carry weight. The margins shrink. The pressure rarely lets up. And somewhere in that climb, many leaders lose access to something
Maja Arnadottir
Mar 243 min read
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